James Bacon

The making of an intellectual monoculture at UVA “Conservative students at the University of Virginia,” a fourth-year student once confided to me, “know who all the conservative professors are. … All seven of them.” That was only a slight exaggeration. Through my work with the Jefferson Council I have identified a dozen faculty members openly […]

The search at the University of Virginia to replace outgoing provost Ian Baucom is well underway. The outcome will reflect the shifting balance of power between President Jim Ryan and a Board of Visitors determined to bring a measure of intellectual diversity to an institution whose faculty and campus climate have been transformed under Ryan

Virginia Commonwealth University has eliminated 13 Diversity, Equity & Inclusion positions, revised some scholarship requirements, and eliminated mandated diversity statements, reports The Richmond Times-Dispatch. In March, VCU’s board voted 11 to 4 to implement President Donald Trump’s executive order requiring universities to eliminate DEI and racial preferences. The action eliminated the Division of Inclusive Excellence.

Stu, the Jefferson Council’s social media guru, notes in the X post above that the University of Virginia continues to hold identity-based graduation ceremonies: one dubbed the LGBQT Lavender Ceremony and one the Multicultural Recognition Ceremony. Although the Department of Education recently issued guidelines that forbid racially segregated graduation ceremonies, UVA is skirting the prohibition

At a jam-packed meeting last week, the George Mason University Board of Visitors received a briefing from Sharnnia Artis, the university’s former vice president for Diversity, Equity & Inclusion, on how the university is complying with a Trump administration mandate to dismantle DEI and racial preferences. For starters, Artis has a new title — vice

Meeting in a special session today, the University of Virginia Board of Visitors emerged from behind closed doors to rescind a measure adopted in 2020 implementing the recommendations of the Racial Equity Task Force and to organize a working group to promote open inquiry and “constructive conversation.” Under heavy pressure from the Trump administration, the

Matthew Carroll, an event coordinator with the Office of Student Affairs, was in his office at the University of Virginia on April 12, 2023, when a professor in Garrett Hall called to say that someone outside the building was playing music so loudly that he couldn’t teach. Student Affairs needed to fix the problem. Pronto.